| ▲ | piker 3 days ago |
| > I’ll continue use these tools with the hope that they don’t make me obsolete too quickly. I'm starting to believe using them is more likely to make you obsolete than not. |
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| ▲ | vermilingua 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It baffles me that so many people are so willing to pay for the privilege of training their own replacement. |
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| ▲ | jjee 2 days ago | parent [-] | | But are you though? From where I stand this thing is going to provide great leverage to those who don’t simply just write code. I personally doubt the thing will ever get to a place where it can be trusted to operate alone - it needs a team of people and to go super fast you need more people. Moreover, the price won’t be high due to competition. I’ve changed my view on LLMs as being good, as long as competition is fierce. | | |
| ▲ | alas44 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Looks like a LLM generated comment | | |
| ▲ | shepherdjerred 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It reads like a human to me. But I understand being suspicious of an account that’s 40min old | |
| ▲ | jjee 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | alas44 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Not sure how hacker news can effectively protect against what looks like fake users posting LLM generated comments :( | |
| ▲ | aerhardt 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I am pretty sure non-technical people are not going to be able to compete in any meaningful way with technical people. |
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| ▲ | shepherdjerred 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I completely agree. Most programmers work on rather boring and not particularly novel things. If they don't adapt, then they'll be replaced. I do think it'll be a while before LLMs make significant contributions to complex projects, though. For example I can't imagine many maintainers of the Linux kernel use LLMs much. |
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| ▲ | piker 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | No. That's not really where I'm coming from. I believe your skills are atrophying when you use these things no matter how trivial the case. That compounds with their bias towards solving problems by producing more code to further reduce your productivity without them. | | |
| ▲ | shepherdjerred 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Ah I read it wrong. I must be using LLMs too much :) I do agree with you to some extent. I think anyone who uses LLMs will need to set aside some time writing code by hand to keep their skills sharp. |
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| ▲ | max_streese 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | And if we do adapt we might still get replaced because less of us will be able to do more. Or we wont because of Jevons Paradox. Linux maintainers on the other hand can code (with and without AI) what I could not (with or without AI). So in a way becoming a more knowledgeable, more skilled programmer is the way? In any case, too much speculation about the future. |
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| ▲ | keybored 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That’s the most craven AI user line I’ve read. Well at least from this week. |
